Which player is actually ‘best’ at guarding Nikola Jokic
For whatever reason before the WCF in 2023, there was a conception that Anthony Davis does very well against Nikola Jokic however that narrative has completely flipped.
I’ve seen Nurkic, Ayton, Draymond and Gobert mentioned before but the facts (stats) seem untrue.
While there might not be a Jokic stopper, is there an actual player that defends Jokic well to the point of keeping him to or below his averages?
Gobert may or may not be the best defender of Jokic overall, but he might be the best at taking a specific part of his game away with his rim protection. Though what “taking a part of his game away” usually means for Jokic is “making him work harder for the same result” or “make him simply good-to-excellent at it rather than elite.”